The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obnoxious \Ob*nox"ious\ ([o^]b*n[o^]k"sh[u^]s), a. [L. obnoxius; ob (see Ob-) + noxius hurtful. See Noxious.]
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Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws.
--Bacon.Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse.
--Milton.Obnoxious, first or last, To basest things
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Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy. ``The contrived and interested schemes of . . . obnoxious authors.''
--Bp. Fell.All are obnoxious, and this faulty land, Like fainting Hester, does before you stand Watching your scepter.
--Waller. Very offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs.
--Burke. [1913 Webster] -- Ob*nox"ious*ly, adv. -- Ob*nox"ious*ness, n.
--South.
Wiktionary
adv. In an obnoxious manner.
WordNet
adv. in an obnoxious manner; "he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences" [syn: offensively, objectionably]
Usage examples of "obnoxiously".
Anthony Nathan, as he obnoxiously swaggered around the front of the courtroom.
Georgi Porgie barhopped, obnoxiously boasting, spreading the word at the right places.
Amazingly, both Steve and Barth knew what she meant, and though their voices were obnoxiously gentle when they addressed her, there was no more argument.
Hamid-Jones regretted his encouragement to Aziz as the two of them sat over a snack provided by a restored room service, and Aziz rambled on obnoxiously about their prospects on Alpha Centauri.
My landlord, Henry Pitts, is a former commercial baker who makes a living now, at the age of eighty-one, by devising obnoxiously difficult crossword puzzles, which he likes to try out on me.
Brad shifted queasily, and across the cabin, Glessin closed his eyes, Pif scowling as the sound became obnoxiously loud—and then it was gone entirely, the ship running smoothly once more, presumably skimming down through the planet’s night sky.
The only thing remaining behind was the fine scent of toilet soap, about which a certain Reginald Bell always claimed that it stank so obnoxiously that even the most callous fleas, on simply sniffing it, would leap into the eternal hunting grounds.